Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (170634)

United States • Age 73

Joined myLot 20 years ago

I work with special children in a school setting. Hubby is retired, I am not. I spend a lot of time online and I love myLot.

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Have you ever heard or been told. . .

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 20h

Have you ever been told from any source that if the gas station you want to go to is getting it's underground storage refilled you should not fuel up at that time? I read or heard it somewhere. I need to fuel almost every day....

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Bluegrass music

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 18 Sep

There is a genre of music in the US culture known as "Bluegrass". I always thought it was because its origins were from the location around Kentucky that is known for bluegrass pastures. I was wrong. It developed in the...

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A skim, or a scam

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 15 Sep

We do not know which it was for sure. I thought it was a scam through my Amazon account, but then a couple of other charges showed up at Best Buy, in Richfield, Minnesota. The banker said it likely could be that my card got...

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Out like a light

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 15 Sep

I had appointments all day. I came in the house, put groceries away and sat down at the computer. As I touched the keyboard, I heard a pop. My assumption was that the internet went down. I was wrong. It was the entire electrical...

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I actually made a salad

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 14 Sep

I had forgotten that I got some fresh foods. I am still not buying lettuce with the food borne illness so recent in the US. I had bought some miniature cucumbers. I also bought a container of "snacking tomatoes". Little tomatoes...

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Paperless

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 12 Sep

I have a theory about hand washing. That theory is that in public restrooms where they have quit using paper towels and only blow driers fewer people wash their hands. I get it, I do not like those roaring, blasting, wall...

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Not sure what it was

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 11 Sep

I had a very tasty lunch of something I had prepared early this summer, and put the leftovers in the freezer. The meat was very tender, I think it was chicken. There was cooked carrots and mushrooms. All covered with a dark brown...

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That was some nap

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 9 Sep

I know I frequently say I am not a day sleeper, but I stayed up past two this morning. Too much caffeine. Lawn guy wanted to do some extra work and so I had to be awake and here to discuss it and pay for it. When he was done, at...

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Tiny treasures, little pleasures.

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 8 Sep

The other day when the activities director saw where Bob was sitting for meals she brought a hummingbird feeder that sticks to the window and placed it for him. Every day there is a very tiny hummingbird that comes by. I think it...

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Well that's not happening

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 6 Sep

I have gotten in the habit of chair napping in front of the TV then lying awake in bed. So I was going to be good and go to bed at the right time. Nope, not happening. My only close neighbors are shooting off a ton of fireworks....

september 2026

labor day

fireworks

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A trail of quail

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 6 Sep

About half of the trip to the Veteran's Home is on rural highways. I never know what is going to show up next. Today I had to slow down as there was a trail of quail parading across the road. They did not fly away but just...

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The best part of today

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 4 Sep

Bob was grumpy and sleepy when I got there, but he went to lunch and that helped. I think he was dehydrated. Today was the day for the September birthday celebration. All the different resident wings can go if they like. Bob...

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It is being passed around

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 2 Sep

I had to get rid of our last Mercury Capri, because it was causing problems with Bob. He was convinced he would drive again. I tried to wait until he went in the nursing home, but that was not possible. My current lawn mower guy,...

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As I had expected

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 1 Sep

Well, as expected last night was rough for Bob and staff. Not eating, slept all day, then up at night roaming and rummaging. They want him to use the walker and he does not want to be compliant. He used it today for lunch. On the...

september 2026

veterans home

bobs new home

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Tomorrow is the day

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 30 Aug

I honestly believe Bob is looking forward to moving as a new adventure. I will not be bossing him around and fussing at him. I honestly do sometimes yell. I can be so good to someone with dementia, until that someone is my...

august 2026

veterans home

bob

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Robert the ravenous

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 29 Aug

The internet says that this CAN happen with Bob's new short term medicine, but not to worry about it. In addition to being thirsty, he just cannot seem to get enough to eat. That is a change of pace from two or three weeks ago...

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Surprisingly good

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 27 Aug

Earlier this month I came across a recipe for a keto peanut butter mug ctake. I was going to make it for my birthday, but that did not happen. This is a quiet afternoon. So I did it. Recipe actually calls for it to be made in a...

august 2026

mug cake

peanut butter

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For the first time this month

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 27 Aug

Today is the first time this month I have taken Bob somewhere in the car and he has not gone limp on the ground requiring the ambulance to come. The cardiologist sent out two new prescriptions late yesterday afternoon. No one...

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Where things stand for Bob

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 22 Aug

Bob seems to be getting a little more coherent. A little more hungry. Yet he still is missing lots of pieces in his lifeskills.. He and I have talked. I am not 100% sure what he understands, but he has been positive about the...

august 2026

waiting

kansas veterans home

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Hoping for rain

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (170634) • United States 22 Aug

It looks heavy and dim outside and it is almost 9 a.m. We have a possibility of rain. Bob has said for a day or two that his body feels like rain. I woke up that way yesterday, and my head hurts. Right now I should be taking out...

august 2026

weather

chores

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